Spoon for feeding children and for dispensing medicines



W, BUSCH June 5, 1934.

SPOON FOR FEEDING CHILDREN AND FOR DISPENSING MEDICINES Filed Dec. 1,1931 ZJ ZM Patented June 5, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SPOON FORFEEDING CHILDREN AND FOR DISPENSING IVIEDICINES Wilhelm Busch, Gladbeck,Germany 1 Claim.

My invention relates to a spoon which consists of a metal core and acoating of an elastic material such as rubber and which is especiallyadapted to be used for the feeding of children and for the dispensing ofmedicines.

The primary object of my invention consists in a spoon through which thecavity of the mouth and the palate of a child to be fed will not be hurtand through which the teething of the child will not be upset.

Another object of my invention consists in a spoon which is easily to beemptied by the child which is fed.

Other objects of my invention will be apparent from the followingspecification of a preferred embodiment of my invention illustrated inthe accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a top view of my improvedspoon,

Fig. 2 a longitudinal section according to the no line IIII of Fig. 1and Fig. 3 a cross-section through the bowl of the spool, according tothe line I-I of Fig. 1,

a is the bowl and b the handle of the spoon. The metal core of the bowldoes not constitute 5 the full bowl shape but forms only the medianportion of the bowl from which the lateral ledges d, d are cut away.

The metal core of the spoon-bowl and of the spoon-handle are providedwith openings. The 80 metal core-portions are coated with an elasfan.

tic material such as rubber which also fills up the openings in the saidmetal core-portions, so that a firm connection of the metalcore-portions and of the coating is warranted.

The coating 0 of. the spoon-bowl constitutes an the full bowl shape, sothat the lateral ledges of the bowl are not at all stiffened bycorresponding metal core-portions but are fully resilient, as the saidledges consist solely of the elastic material. Therefore the cavity ofthe 65 mouth and the palate of a child will not be hurt when feeding thechild. Also the teething of the child will not be upset. Further abetter emptying of the spoon-bowl is attained by the pressing down ofthe elastic ledges of the bowl.

As children often grasp the spoon to chew at the end of thespoon-handle, the latter is also provided with openings and coated at cwith the elastic material.

I claim:

A spoon comprising a handle having a core portion for the bowl andhaving a bowl of elastic material in which said core portion isembedded, the width of the core portion being less than that of the bowlso that the sides of the BE- bowl extend outwardly beyond the sides ofthe core portion, are not reinforced by the core portion and are henceflexible.

